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mircea_popescu: mrottenkolber nothing i said was related to bitcoin, was it ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform something tells me commenter has never seen hyenas. wtf, some of the most social animals, in its good days washington dc polite society more or less approximates pack of hyenas.
mircea_popescu: mrottenkolber> Naive question: what would be the implications of using sha1 instead of sha512 in vdiff? << roughly speaking you'd be going back in time, we're by and large in the process of moving to sha-3
mircea_popescu: will be signign the davout application later today myself.
mircea_popescu: there's nothing special about the various clones of bill de blasio that prevents them from being made into soap.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform note that technically, the machine can be powered on anything. soviets dekulakized the very dekulakizers at least twice ; mao did it at least once,
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes> motherfucking moving target << check out the premonitory quality of the vulpes.
mircea_popescu: maybe it should be all based on colors for all we know.
mircea_popescu: and we don't even have the fucking conceptual girder to even comprehend what the rationale'd be on (in terms of, what are the primitives)
mircea_popescu: and we won't even fucking know the standard is anything but elaborate cumcake until the rationale part stands up.
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, bitcoin needs not merely a "protocol standard".
mircea_popescu: did everyone see the funarg funerales argentinos thing ?
mircea_popescu: in other crazy news, i just popped (ie, got a major loot) in eulora. 1+ bitcent's worth of brave man's nosehairs.
mircea_popescu: go, tell three year old that the sky isn't a thing, pristina rosa, all that.
mircea_popescu: much long ago, when chet was a young woman, with children like many here she tried to prepare herself, like many here try. so she had an answer all ready for the eventual inevitable moment her oldest was going to inquire why the sky is blue.
mircea_popescu: that at least could be satisfied. even in 80s cold dark romania, proper jools could in principle be had.
mircea_popescu: it wasn't a cartoon. it was a "book of practical activities for making puppets and designing scenes". superadvanced art stuff for ro genius kids
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> trinque: idea was to play stupid & set judicial precedent in favour of arbitrary do-what-we-say orders << i think trinque is much closer to the facts of the field. beast doth not know what it wants not merely for the provable impossibility of such a want, but mostly for absence of a want organ.
mircea_popescu: but if you asked me i'd have thought mine was romanian
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> phf: you may have been thinking of bash.org ? << i don't think he is and i have a vague recollection of this from the very early 2000s that i also can't place
mircea_popescu: she can integrate now, and it didn't even take that many whippings.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i once met a young girl who thought she is no good with math. she was creative you see, and on her grave was to be inscribed a vintage purse rather than a badly unresolved equation.
mircea_popescu: trinque> guy even knows how to ghost his nick << nice stuff.
mircea_popescu: no, i'm not. i noticed it then, and was deeply surprised she was even considering doing anything ; not surprised in the end result.
mircea_popescu: the all-permeating smell of the young male, eh ? supposedly the world is built on these, you know.
mircea_popescu: pretty much the ~only way such an attempt ends up is into a f-35, sooner or later.
mircea_popescu: phf there's no need to lean or anything ; but the fact remains that if you're unhappy with the way in which fights between toddlers and adults are coming out, giving the toddlers fancier rifles is not likely to do much.
mircea_popescu: i am currently of the " ' technology won't be solving human problems ' has been deeply abused and is taking its pound of flesh" school of thought.
mircea_popescu: the wot is eminently private and so deeply irreducible to public that it doesn't even matter it is publicly visible
mircea_popescu: for the record, and to revisit that old definition of "public" ie the forum vs "private" ie the gynacaeum, something is public when it has what has been here referred to as a "real" part. ie, when it is possible to make a definition for it that is meaningful for everyone.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: wot is not supporting of a single notion of identity. what x signature is varies irreconcillably among the users, by design and deliberately.
mircea_popescu: it's stress syndrome already, lifeforms fully aware they live in shit. "i'ma make myself a house!"
mircea_popescu: FUCK every pissant proggy getting to have its own miniature version of the microshit winblowz 'registry'. << so true this.
mircea_popescu: in a different restatement, people "willing to take responsibility for their actions" only has an imaginary part, and no real part ; for the necessary reason that responsibility can not be defined coherently in the real space.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ematics is known as a pole. attempts to create a netherworld between the sharply divergent f(x) and f(x+e) is what i've recently discovered - through the usual stepping on research process - to be a landmine.
mircea_popescu: mod6 << i think so too. but the road to hell is paved with good intentions. << there is no possible division between "punishment" no matter how defined and trust in any reasonable sense. either what you say matters, in which case the world rapidly evolves towards "too hard for peoeple, who just want to..." or what you say doesn't matter, in which case the world rapidly evolves towards welfare state. it is what in math
mircea_popescu: not like the actual malibu dwellers are coerced to live in the vinyl sidings abominations. meeting of the minds.
mircea_popescu: the one problematic part is that stilts or no stilts, the product is actually very well adapted to the market it serves.
mircea_popescu: like in that film with the guy who keeps waking up in the same place.
mircea_popescu: and moreover, even with the best of intentions, the defense of the group is expensive and arduous, and everyone's got better shit to do.
mircea_popescu: much like it is cheaper for universities to universities than to actually teach anyone anything
mircea_popescu: and it is cheaper for this group to put forth an ideology than to do any actual investigative work
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: yeah, sure, not a difficult one for as long as one lives on imaginary half mil a year and theorizes away. in practice, it will not be seen, nor has it.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and, importantly, if it WERE to fail, how would we resolve the problem if it is or it isn't your fault.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: mod6 in any case, the idea of responsibility in software is a lot more difficult to implement than previously hoped.
mircea_popescu: basically giving the day to the usual obamas with simple ideas and an insistence to repeat their nonsense.
mircea_popescu: moreover, the issue of "it's kernel's fault" "no dude is program's fault" requires very complex analysis most people are unable to engage in, and in any case unable to finance even if they could somehow engage in it
mircea_popescu: mod6 that is the crux of the problem. there is no such thing as separatability in software anyway.
mircea_popescu: i imagine that's a rabbit with a whiplash sore penis huh
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes> right now, i expect to sign something half-baked that then crashes on some dirigible and gets me excommunicated << this is a very cogent point ; and i feel rather the same way.
mircea_popescu: jurov> and if your wot peer starts spamming with facebooky comments, just remove him << it's not so simple, really. it's not a sudden and visible thing, just slow slide towards shitworld where you wake up one day and wonder wtf happened. much like irl marriages.
mircea_popescu: "way down deep in the middle of the jungle a hippo humped a manatee and spawned a scary daughter - i know, we'll call her ubuntu!"
mircea_popescu: actually ubuntu sounds like a pretty decent name for the chicks BingoBoingo links.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i have traveled to africa. unless one means specially designated experimental lab (some towns in south africa etc), internet connection is poor.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: dunno that it'd fix anything per se, but perhaps give us the tools to better approach the problem ? dunno.
mircea_popescu: hanbot mod6 maybe an extension to deedbot where people could go !tag <string> and then a collection of clickable tags is published somewhere, each leading to a list of loglines ?
☟︎☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: and it is deeply shameful, for you, that i have to tell you this.
mircea_popescu: so to sum it up : i'd like you to show me the fucking common courtesy of considering whether next time you highlight me, i could in any conceivable manner have any interest in whatever is in there.
mircea_popescu: what the fuck am i, in this incredibly infantile, and deeply ustardian conception of the world ? free for the taking or something ?
mircea_popescu: "to my eyes, wasting mp's time is worth so much less than entertaining vexual that there's no contest".
mircea_popescu: how exactly did you judge the cost function of not spamming mp nonsense so it came below the value of talking to nubbins` ? i wish to know, explain this to me.